Coveting is forbidden by God and can lead to terrible consequences. It occasionally refers to a commendable earnest desiring.

Exodus 20:17

Coveting is forbidden by God

In the Ten Commandments

Romans 7:7-8

pp Dt 5:21

See also

Romans 13:9-10

Coveting is provoked by the law that forbids it.

Isaiah 5:8; 57:17
Ezekiel 33:31

Through the prophets

Amos 2:6; 5:11-12; 8:5-6
Micah 2:2
Matthew 6:19-21

See also

In Jesus Christ's teaching

Luke 12:15
2 Samuel 11:2-4

Coveting has some terrible consequences

1 Kings 21:18-19

adultery

Matthew 18:1-3

murders

Mark 9:33-35

Failure to enter the kingdom of heaven:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Acts 5:3-10

pp Lk 9:46-48

God's judgment

Joshua 7:21

Further examples of coveting

See also

Deuteronomy 7:25
Joshua 22:20
1 Samuel 2:12-15

Achan

1 Samuel 8:3

Eli's sons

1 Samuel 15:9-10

Samuel's sons

Proverbs 30:16
Jeremiah 6:13; 8:10

Saul

Habakkuk 2:5
Acts 8:13-23

Israel's enemies are likened to the grave, always swallowing people and never satisfied

Simon the sorcerer

Psalms 119:36

Believers may pray to be free from coveting

1 Samuel 12:3-5

Godly people claim not to have coveted

Samuel

Acts 20:33

See also

Paul

1 Corinthians 9:12
2 Corinthians 7:2; 11:9; 12:14-18
1 Thessalonians 2:5
1 Corinthians 12:31; 14:1,39

Coveting as a commendable earnest desiring

1 Timothy 3:1

A desire for the greater spiritual gifts:

See also

a desire to serve in a leadership role in the church

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5832 desire
5869 greed
8264 gentleness
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